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HIS EXCELLENCY 

JOHN A. ANDREW 

TO THE 

TWO BHANCHES 

OF THE 

legislature d glassaeljusetts, 

NOVEMBER 11, 1865. 



BOSTON: 

WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS 

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ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the Senate^ 

and of the House of Representatives : 

In view of the fact that the term of service of a 
part of the volunteer forces of the United States will 
expire during the coming year, and that theu' places 
have not been supplied by the result of the recent draft 
the President of the United States has issued his 
proclamation, under date of October 17, 1863, calling 
upon the Governors of the several States to raise 
and have enlisted into the national service, for the 
various companies and regiments in the field, from 
then* respective States, their quotas of three hundred 
thousand men ; and also proclaiming, that, if any State 
shall fail to raise the contingent assigned to it by the 
War Department under this call, then a di-aft for the 
deficiency thereof shall be made on the State, or 
on the enrolment districts of the State, for their due 
proportion of that number of men, which draft shall 
commence on the fifth day of January, 186-4. 

The contingent of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts under this call has been fixed by the War 



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Department at fifteen thousand one hundred and tiventy- 
six. This number is exclusive of any deficiencies 
under the recent draft of 1863 ; and the War Depart- 
ment has informed me that no draft will be made in 
January next, should the amount of this contingent 
be raised before that time by voluntary enlistment. 
But if a draft should become necessary through a 
failure to enlist the full number, it may be ordered to 
be executed not only to supply the numbers deficient 
under the present requisition, but also to include all 
prior and existing deficiency with which we may be 
charged by the Depailment of War. Such di-aft will 
be made in proportion to the eiu'olment of men in the 
fii'st class liable to draft, made by the United States 
Provost Marshals in the several congressional districts 
of the Commonwealth. 

To aid in the recruitment, the Secretary of War has 
offered to all persons who have served for a period of 
not less than nine months a bounty of $-402, of which 
$75, — includmg the pay of one month, — will be paid 
in advance. To new recruits a bounty of $302 is 
offered, of which the same amount will be i)aid in ad- 
vance, on their enlistment to go into old regiments in 
the field. Each volunteer, on his enlistment, will 
elect for himself the regiment he will enter. The 
national bounty offered to those who have served nine 



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months or more will be paid to them, whether they 
enlist into the veteran regiments and companies now 
organizing in this State or into old regiments in the 
field ; but the bounty to new recruits will be paid to 
those only who go into old regiments or companies 
now in the field. 

It will be remembered that, at the last session of 
the legislature a law wns enacted (chapter 91 of the 
Acts of 1863,) which is now in force, forbidding the 
payment of any bounty by the municipal governments 
of this Commonwealth. A bounty of fifty dollars 
each, to be paid by the governor to persons enlist- 
ing as Massachusetts volunteers, was provided for by 
the same statute, but no other or larger bounty is 
allowed to be paid under the laws of this Common- 
wealth. By another statute, passed by the same legis- 
lature, (chapter 122,) cities and towns were prohibited 
from votmg or appropriating any money to reheve or 
discharge men who should be di-afted ; and municipal 
officers were forbidden, under penalty of fine or im- 
prisonment, from paying any money belonging to their 
municipalities for that purpose, or for any bounty or 
gratuity to any volunteer or drafted man, except such 
as were authorized by existing laws. 

The aggregate bounty, which, under existing 
laws and regulations, can be paid to volunteers now. 



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enlisting, at the time of their enhstment, is $^50 by 
the State and $75 by the United States, of which 
snm the one month's advance pay of $13 forms a 
part. 

By a circular issued from the Office of the Provost 
Marshal General, in the War Depai'tment, under date 
of October 28, 1863, it is announced that the boun- 
ties, premiums and advance pay will be paid to all 
persons who may be accepted as recruits, in accord- 
ance therewith, in the following manner, viz. : — 

To every recruit who is a veteran volunteer, that 
is, every able-bodied man, between the ages of 
eighteen and forty-five, who has heretofore been 
enlisted, and has served for not less than nine 
months, and can pass the surgical examination re- 
quired by the mustering regulations of the United 
States, one month's pay in advance, and a bounty 
and premium amounting to f -102, as follows : — 

1. At tlic general rendezvous, and before leaving 
the same to join his regiment or company, 
one month's pay in advance, . . . $13 00 
First instahncnt of bounty, . . . . 60 00 

Premium, . . . . . . . 2 00 



Total pay before leaving general rendezvous, $75 00 
[This will be paid in cash, or checks for transmittal, in 
whole or in part, as the man may desire.] 



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2. At the first regular pay-day, or two months 

after muster-in, an additional instalment of 

bounty, 150 00 

3. At the first regular pay-day after six months' 

service, an additional instalment of bounty, 50 00 

4. At the first regular pay-day after the end of 

the first year's service, an additional instal- 
ment of bounty, ..... 50 00 

5. At the first regular pay-day after eighteen 

months' service, an additional instalment of 

bounty, 50 00 

6. At the first regular pay-day after two years' 

service, an additional instalment of bounty, 50 00 

7. At the first regular pay-day after two and a 

half years' service an additional instalment 

of bounty, 50 00 

8. At the expiration of three years' service, or to 

any soldier who may be honorably dis- 
charged after two years' service, the remain- 
der of the bounty will be paid, ... 40 00 

All of the above payments of bounty will be in addition to 
the regular monthly pay of thirteen dollars per month. 

To all other recruits, not veterans, accepted and enlisted 
as aforesaid, one month's pay in advance, and in addition, a 
bounty and premium amounting to $302, will be paid, as 
follows : — 

1. At the general rendezvous and before leaving 
the same to join his regiment or company, 
the recruit will be paid one month's pay in 
advance, . . . . . ,. . $13 00 



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First instalment of bounty, .... $60 • 00 
Premium, 2 00 



Total pay before leaving general rendezvous, $75 00 
[To be paid in cash or checks for transmittal, in whole or 
in part, as the recruit may desire.] 

2. At the first regular pay-day or two months 

after muster-in, an additional instalment of 

bounty will be paid, $40 00 

3. At the first regular pay-day after six months' 

service, in addition to his pay, he shall be 

paid an additional instalment of bounty, . 40 00 

4. At the first regular pay-day after the end of 

the first year's service, in addition to his 
pay, an additional instalment of bounty 
will be paid, . " 40 00 

5. At the first regular pay-day after eighteen 

months' service, in addition to his pay, an 
additional instalment of bounty will be 
paid, 40 00 

6. At the first regular pay-day after two ye?irs' 

service, in addition to his pay, an additional 
instalment of bounty will be paid, . . 40 00 

7. At the expiration of three years' service, or 

to any soldier who may be honorably dis- 
charged after two years' service, the remain- 
der of the bounty will be paid, . . . 40 00 

If the government shall not require these troops for the 
full period of three years, and tbey shall be honorably mus- 
tered out of the service before the expiration of their term 
of enlistment, they will receive, upon being mustered out, 
tlic whole amount of bounty remaining unpaid, the same as 



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if the full term had been served. The legal heirs of recruits 
who die in service will be entitled to receive the whole 
bounty remaining unpaid at the time of the soldier's death. 
If the recruit continues in service for three years, the 
monthly pay of $13, and the bounty received as aforesaid, 
will amount, when averaged over the whole term of service : 

For veteran volunteers, per month, to . . $24 90 
For other soldiers, not veterans, per month, . 21 30 

If discharged at the end of two years, the pay and bounty 
received will be at the following rates : 

For veteran volunteers, per month, . . . 129 70 
For other soldiers not veterans, per month, . 25 50 

If honorably mustered out in less than two years, as not 
being required, the monthly rate of compensation will 
become increased, as the term of service is diminished. 

In addition to this, the volunteer is furnished with his 
rations, clothing, and medical attendance, and is paid in cash 
for such part of his allowance of clothing as he does not 

draw. 

Men enlisted under this Order will be permitted to select 
their own regiments, which however, must be old regiments 
in the field, excepting in the cases of those veterans 
who enlist in veteran organizations, and with the further 
exception that other new recruits, while they may, if they 
choose to do so, enlist in the veteran regiments, the provi- 
sions of this Order in respect to bounties will not be enjoyed 
by them. 

It has been represented to me by officers engaged 
in the recruiting service, as well as by many citizens 

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and magistrates, that these bounties do not offer 
sufficient pecuniary inducements to enable the re- 
quired number to be raised within the two months 
which scarcely remain to us. At the request of 
several municipal governments, and of divers pat- 
riotic and public spirited people of the Common- 
wealth, I have therefore called together the General 
Court for the single and special purpose of devising 
means to secure the contingent of volunteers assigned 
to Massachusetts, and to take such action in the 
premises as in its wisdom may be found expedient. 
With the present rewards of peaceful industry at 
home, and the expenditure requu*ed for the support of 
families left behmd them, it is believed that both the 
pay of a soldier and these proposed bounties com- 
bined, do not afford a sufficient pecuniary compensa- 
tion to attract volunteers in numbers large enough for 
the public need. And while I hold that the service 
of our Country in the field, in support of her rights 
and liberties, against her enemies in war, is of inesti- 
mable honor, and is incomparable with all rewards of 
pecuniary or material advantage, 1 am none the less 
convinced that the burdens incident to that service 
should be equitably shart d by all classes and members 
pf the whole community : — since all alike must share 



1863.] SENATE— No. 1. 11 

in its benefits and will profit alike by the triumphs of 
the National arms. 

I cordially agree, therefore, with all those who 
advise such additional legislation as will better dis- 
tribute pecuniary burdens, alleviating them so far as 
they bear upon the soldier and his family, and equita- 
bly distributing their weight upon the people and the 
property of the Commonwealth. But, I venture 
respectfully to urge upon every mind the considera- 
tion that we ought not to legislate singly and only 
with a view to a present, technical, formal supply of 
our contingent. 

With the eye of patriotic statesmanship, we are 
bound to survey the whole field of present and future 
duty and responsibility. We must remember that the 
national cause is our own cause, its armies are our 
own armies, the men whom we are summoned to 
remforce are our own loyal, patriotic, brave and devot- 
ed brethren, to whose persistent valor it is due, under 
the blessing of God, that there is preserved to us a 
cause and a country, and that her symbolic ensign 
waves to-day over so many a scene of triumph dearly 
bought. We want not merely recruits, but men for 
the war ; not mercenaries, but patriotic soldiers ; 
men to whom the service means duty and honor for 



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themselves, happiness and welfare for their- children 
hereafter to the latest generation. 

I am not of opinion, regarding the matter in the 
light of experience or of the wisdom of men in other 
affairs, that any increase of the bounty in hand of 
$125 now due to the volunteer, paid in advance, is the 
measure needful or even desu'able for the procure- 
ment of real soldiers and honest service. Something 
is needed by many men to leave behind them at the 
moment of departure ; something to stock, the family 
supplies and to secure to them immediate and a certain 
independence from petty wants and cares. And that 
is already offered. But, it remains to propose to the 
soldier a compensation to be based upon the service 
actually rendered in the army, reasonably proportioned 
to the rewards of peaceful industry at home. This, I 
think, is what he wiU ask. No less than this ought 
he to be required to accept. And when this is pro- 
posed by the government, I cannot doubt that the 
liberal equity of its offer for the procurement of 
volunteers and for the avoidance of a draft, will be felt 
to illustrate the justice of its inexorable demands for 
reinforcements, according to the exigencies of the 
war, whenever they may occur hereafter. 

I am prepared, therefore, to assist in committing 
the Commonwealth to a policy of the payment of 



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regular wages to the Massachusetts volunteers, m 
addition to all other pay, allowances, bounties and 
advantages hitherto enjoyed 

Nor would I restrict the offer to those only who 
may enlist as a part of this new contingent. I would 
include all future recruits, and I would emphatically 
include all those enlisted men belonging to any of the 
Massachusetts regiments or batteries who may, under 
the authority of the President, reenlist for an addi- 
tional term. All volunteers having less than one year 
to serve, under the present enlistments, are authorized 
by orders from the Department of War to reenlist 
themselves in their original regiments, on the footing 
of veterans, for another period of three years, unless 
sooner discharged, such new term to begin forthwith. 
I hold it to be not only of grand importance to secure 
the existence of these war-worn regiments while the 
war shall last, and especially the services of these 
tried and brave old soldiers who compose them, but 
it would be only an act of grateful justice to proffer 
them the utmost advantages. ». Indeed, I cannot feel 
that it becomes the people of Massachusetts, at this 
period of the war, to act as if conscious only of the 
presence of an impending draft, and with a view only 
to its prevention. Gratitude, manliness, and honor, 
alike concui' with what I regard as the statesmanlike 



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policy of the situation, to encourage those meritorious 
and deserving, men to renew then* engagement to 
the military service. 

I have detailed thus carefully the facts and the 
figures, and have suggested in brief the argument 
illustrating the existing emergency in which originated 
this convocation of the General Court, in order that 
members may possess them, so far as they m ere at my 
own command, compactly arranged, and without the 
necessity of search. 

Gentlemen, the President of the United States de- 
mands a new recruitment of the army of the Union. 
And it must be had. Massachusetts is summoned to 
sujDply her proper contingent. She cannot falter and 
she will not fail. Three hundred thousand men added 
now to the National Ai'mies, skilfully distributed and 
led, marching in *aid of the forces already in the field, 
would sweep the rebellion from the face of the earth. 
Our columns fallmg on the enemy akeady conscious 
of his waning power, and barely delaying us now at 
Charleston, on the Rapidan, at Chattanooga ; incapa- 
ble — by lack of the population — to furnish soldiers to 
recruit agam his own wasting ranks, would crush out 
by their very weight and momentum every organized 
form of resistance. Rich in material resources, pros- 
perous even in the midst of war, strong in hope and 



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courage, and immensely superior in numerical force, 
the loyal people of the United States need only to 
avail themselves of this tide in thek aifairs to restore • 
almost at a blow the fortunes of the Republic, and to 
vindicate the inevitable supremacy of the National 
power. 

I have felt it my duty, freely and without reserve, 
to declare the impressions which reflection and expe- 
rience have made upon my own mind, touching the 
policy and the methods which the subject and its 
attending interests seem to recommend. I submit 
them, Gentlemen, to your judgment, confident that the 
conclusions at which you will arrive will be those of 
patriotic and wise men. " < 

I have not even suggested the possible alternative of 
municipal bounties. They are open to manifest objec- 
tions, too well appreciated by the present Legislature 
to require them to be exposed or stated. The " Act 
to provide for the reimbursement of bounties paid to 
Volunteers, and to apportion and assess a tax there- 
for," (chapter 218 of the Acts of 1863,) I assume to 
have established a policy in this regard from which the 
present General Court will not be disposed to depart. 

Regretting the necessity of imposing on the mem- 
bers of the General Court the duty of assembling at 
this unusual season, I beg leave to suggest that the 



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result of its deliberations will in great part depend for 
its value on the time within which that result is 
reached and promulgated. Had any interpretation of 
the powers of the Executive Department permitted, I 
would cheerfully have encountered any degree of 
responsibility for the purpose of avoiding to the Com- 
monwealth the expense, to the Senators and Repre- 
sentatives the inconvenience, and to the enlistment 
service the postponement, unavoidably incident to the 
necessity of resorting to an extraordinary session of 
the* Legislature. 

Gentlemen, — One other subject only claims consid- 
eration at the present moment. It is kindi'ed to that 
which is the special object of the session. It is the 
just payment, — according to their enlistment and their 
rights as soldiers, — of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth 
regiments of Massachusetts Volunteers. To my own 
mind, the right of these men, under the existing 
statutes, to the lawful pay and allowances of ^■olun- 
teers is demonstrably clear. But if it is doubtful, it 
is agreed, I believe, in all quarters, that it will be the 
duty and the pleasure of Congress to embrace an 
early opportunity to prevent, by positive legislation, 
the continuance of that doubt. Meantime I must 
embrace the earliest occasion to invoke the Legislature 



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of Massachusetts to render justice to the men of these 
regiments, beyond the possibiUty of a doubt, by the 
appropriation of the needful means out of our own 
treasury, until the National Congress or the Executive 
Department shall correct the error. 

The employment of colored men as soldiers, usually 
regarded at the formation of these regiments as a 
mere experiment, has now become of universal 
acceptation. To the good conduct in camp, the pro- 
ficiency in drill, the aptness to learn, the cheerful, 
the enthusiastic and persistent valor of these colored 
volunteers of Massachusetts, is due, in the largest 
measure, the existing confidence of the people in the 
capacity of colored American soldiers, and the favor 
with which they are welcomed throughout the army. 
I have the most authoritative testimony that " your 
(our) infantry regiments }iav)e settled the question of the 
colored man s fitness for infantry service." 

But I remember with burning shame, that the men 
of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, who held the right 
of the advance on that terrible night of the 18th of 
July, in the assault on Fort Wagner, — ^led by that 
gallant young American,* whose spotless life, whose 
chivalrous character, and whose heroic death, there is 
no marble white enough to commemorate, — that these 

* Colonel Robert G. Shaw. 
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men, wearing the uniform of the National army, car- 
rying the flag of the Union and the colors of Massachu- 
setts, accepted, sworn, and mustered into the volun- 
teer service, as a part of the contingent force of our 
own Commonwealth ; who have made a name for 
their race as enduring as history, and have fought as 
none others could have better fought ; — yes, A'S'ith 
burnmg shame, I daily remember, that these men 
— soldiers as they are — are denied the wages of 
soldiers, and are put off with the ton dollars 
per month, clothing included, prescribed for all man- 
ner of uninspected, unenlisted persons of African 
descent, who are employed under an exceptional 
statute, for whatever service they may be found 
competent. 

I think there can be no proposition of law more 
clear than this, viz. : that colored men are competent 
to be enlisted into the regular army of the United 
States, into the volunteer army of the United States, 
mto the navy of the United States, and to be employed 
in any arm of either service. 

The Mihtary Enlistment law of 1B14 required only 
that the recruit shall be a " free, effective, able bodied 
man, between the ages of eighteen and fifty years." 
(See Act of December 10, 1814.) It did not require 
a man to be under forty-five, nor a citizen, nor white, 



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in which three respects, it differs from the old Mihtia 
Act. The Naval Act of 1813 is not less clear. 

The Act of Congress, entitled " An Act more 
effectually to provide for the national defence, by 
establishing an uniform militia throughout the United 
States," required the enrolment of " each and every 
free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective 
States." This is the "first Militia Act. It was passed 
May 8, 1792. 

The Act passed on the 30th April, 1790, entitled 
" An Act for regulating the military establishment of 
the United States," requires " that the non-commis- 
sioned officers and privates shall, at the time 
of their enlistment, respectively, be able-bodied 
men, not under five feet six inches in height, 
without shoes ; nor under the age of eighteen, nor 
above the age of forty-six years." The Act of March 
3d, 1795, preserves the same description, and in the 
same words. The Act of March 16th, 1802, "fixing 
the military peace establishment of the United States," 
and the Act of March, 1815, with a similar title, seem 
to requii-e the recruit to be an " efifective, able-bodied 
citizen of the United States, between the ages of 
eighteen and thirty-five years." 

None of the Acts of Congress, however, exclude 
men from the army for color or extraction, though 



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some of them appear to do so, for want of citizenship. 
But the native-bom American is a citizen, whatever 
may be his complexion or descent. 

The prejudices of slavery which used to deny citi- 
zenship to the man of color, have been recently over- 
ruled by the opmion of the present Attorney-General 
of the United States, so that, if want of citizenship 
could have been an obstacle, that obstacle is -removed. 
If there were any necessary analogy, (which there is 
not,) between the eni'olment of the militia and the 
Acceptance of volunteers, then chapter 201 of the Acts 
of 18G'2 would remove that obstacle,, since the word 
"white," by that Act of Congress ceases to charac- 
terize the militia-man. And, in order that no possi- 
bility of doubt might ever exist in the mmd of even 
the most hesitant student of the law, it is pro\ided m 
the lltli section of the 195th chapter, Acts of 1862, 
" that the President of the United States is authorized 
to employ as many persons of African descent as he 
may deem necessary and proper for the suppression 
of the rebellion, and for this purpose he may organize 
AND USE THEM in such manner as he may judge best 
for the public welfare." 

This Act was unnecessary, because the President, 
in the laws authorizing him to accept Volunteers^ 
was 7iever restricted to the acceptance of white men, 



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1863.] SENATE— No. 1. 21 

nor citizens, nor even, as I have before shown, was 
he Hmited to white men in the recruitment of the 
regular army. So that a man of African descent was 
as ehgible, even before this last enactment, to be a 
soldier, if he chose to enlist, and the President chose 
to accept him, as he was to be punished for crime 
if convicted. 

The only restriction upon the right of the President 
to accept black soldiers being, as I have before stated, 
merely the limitation (now obsolete) to white militia- 
men, it follows that the argument which would have 
precluded the President from accepting colored volun- 
teers, even before the 195th chapter of the Acts of 
1862, would have prevented punishing a black man 
for crime : for if the laws did not expressly declare 
that a man of African descent could be enlisted as a 
soldier, neither did they declare that he might be 
hanged for piracy. 

But, under the 11th section of the 195th chapter 
of the Acts of 1862, the President is specifically 
authorized to employ persons of African descent, 
" and for this purpose he may organize and use 
them in such manner as he may judge best for 
the public welfare." Now, colored soldiers enlisted 
and organized in any manner, which would be legal, 
had they been white, under the President's orders. 



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or by officers serving under the President, who shall 
actually render service pursuant to their enlistment, 
are entitled to the pay which pertains to their rank 
and grade. 

Such a soldier disobeying the lawful orders of his 
superiors, would be punished according to the law 
martial, even to the infliction of the penalty of death, 
for cowardice before the enemy. Nor would he be 
permitted to plead his color as excuse for his offence. 

But what is the compensation fixed by law for 
members of volunteer organizations ? The answer is 
found in the 6th section of the 9th chapter Acts of 
1861, and is expressed in these words: "That the 
officers, non-commissioned officers and ])rivates, or- 
ganized as above set forth, shall, in all respects^ be 
placed on the footing, as to tay and allowances, of 
similar corps of the Regular Army." A certain 
proviso in this section concerning the clothing allow- 
ance, applying to all volunteers, does not affect the 
argument. And, by the 63d chapter of the Acts of 
1861, the pay of a private is fixed at $13 per month. 

I am advised that the colored soldiers of South 
Carolina, under ]\Iajor-General Hunter, were at fu'st 
paid without diminution of their wages. I learn from 
Major-Gencral Butler that such also were the orders 
concerning the colored Louisiana Volunteers, while 



1863.] SENATE— No. 1. 23 

he remained in the Department of the Gulf. I am 
informed that, in the Navy, there is and has been, no 
objection to paying its men, irrespective of color, 
according to the grade of their employment. And, 
even m the army, colored men acting in the capacity 
of stevedores and as employees of the Quartermaster's 
or of the Ordnance departments, are paid according 
to the value of their services, and sometimes even at 
the rate of one dollar by the day. 

I have stated the legal argument and also these 
additional facts because both the facts as well as the 
argument encourage the confident belief that this 
anomalous treatment of the colored, volunteers will not 
and cannot long continue. 

Meanwhile, I earnestly recommend the General 
Court, in simple justice to our own soldiers, and 
for the honor of the Commonwealth, to authorize the 
payment, reckoning from the date of their muster 
into the service of the United States, to all the enlisted 
men of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts 
Regiments, of that portion of the lawful monthly pay 
of United States Volunteers which has been or may 
be refused them by the Paymasters of the United 
States. 



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Gentlemen of the Senate, 

and of the House of Represeutatives : 

I congratulate you and the people of the Com- 
monwealth on the happy omens, seen in the 
progress of our arms, in. the quality of the pubHc 
opinion, and in the tenacity of its patriotism, which 
auspicate the lasting glory of Our CouxNtiiy. 

'• We must forget all feelinprs save the one; 
We must resign all passions save our purpose ; 
yVii must behold no object save our country, 
And only look on death as beautiful, 
So that the sacrifice ascend to Heaven 
And draw down freedom on her evenDore.** 



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